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Berkeley County, West Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WV003 · Berkeley County 23 sys · 4,057 viol · #590/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 95.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 4.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #590/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +1.2 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 66.7% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 74%
  • SYS-SMALL 23 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Raleigh County ( -1.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Berkeley County ranks #590 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #3 of 55 counties in West Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Berkeley County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 95.7% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 4.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 66.7% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #590 of 3,254 · #3 of 55 in West Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Berkeley County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Berkeley County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mercer · lowest Berkeley · this county Boone · highest 92.3% 94.4% 95.7% 97.7% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

Compare beyond West Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Berkeley County

Cross-state counties nearest Berkeley County on flagged-system share (95.7%) and cumulative violation count (4,057). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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